I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of work-life balance and prioritizing personal well-being.
Brunello Cucinelli's quote highlights the significance of giving one’s best effort in the workplace while also recognizing the necessity of rest and personal life. It reflects a leadership philosophy that values productivity without sacrificing the personal health and happiness of employees, encouraging them to lead fulfilling lives outside of work.
In practice
In a team meeting to emphasize the importance of balance.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.
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